Basin-cock fastener.



PATENTBD MAR. 8, 1904.

J. H. GLAUBBR. BASIN COOK FASTENER.

ATPLIOATION TILED MAY 1, 1903.

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Patented March 8, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH H. GLAUBER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

BASIN-COCK FASTENER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.753,974, dated March 8, 1904. Application filed May 1, 1903. Serial No.155,189. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. GLAUBER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Basin-Cock Fasteners;and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to basin-cock fasteners.

Hitherto the nut which secures the cock upon the marble slab and threadson the lower portion thereof beneath the slab has always been run updirectly against the under side of the slab, thus bringing it into aposition where it was very diflicult to apply a wrench both forfastening it and for removing it and working much annoyance to plumbers.Hence I conceived the idea of providing a fastener which intervenes thenut and the slab and which serves as a direct bearing for the nut toapply the pressure for tightening the cock upon the slab as effectivelyas before and with greatlyincreased convenience.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of thefastener alone, and Fig. 2 is an elevation of abasin-cobk to which thefastener is applied and showing the fastener and the basin and marbleslab in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a modification of theinvention.

A represents a common form of basin-cock, B the basin, and S the marbleslab. The cock has a threaded stem at, extendingdown through slab S,with which the Water-supply pipe P is coupled, as usual, and on the saidstem a is a nut N, also as usual.

F is my new fastener, so-called, the same being either cast or struckfrom metal into substantially conoidal shape and preferably flutedlengthwise with the flutes or corrugations preferably deepest at itslarger end and practically running out at the smallerend. This fasteneris large enough at its smaller end to sleeve or pass freely over stem 4and rests with its larger flared edge up against the bottom of slab S,while nut N presses against it below. Thus interposed between slab andnut the nut is kept down away from the slab at such a distance thatawrench can be easily applied thereto for both tightening and looseningpurposes, while the fastener serves also to center and brace the stem ofthe cock and give rigidity to the connection not possible ordinarilywhen a nut alone is used, especially since the nut is so very diflicultto fasten alone and often is left comparatively loose.

By making the fastener with flutes or corrugations, substantially asshown, I can use a lighter metal than would be possible with a plainsurface, as the flutes or corrugations greatly increase the sustainingstrength or resistance of the fastener and preventcollapsing underpressure. It occurs also as a material advantage in a fastener of thiskind that small blocks of wood or other like washers for the purposes ofmaking a seat for the nut N are not required when this fastener is used.

In Fig. 3 I-show a modification in which slab S is substituted by ametallic plate orporcelain-covered slab R, having a body of sheetsteel,as is now becoming common in this art and which, owing to the thinnessof the metal, requires also a modification of means for se curing thebasin-cock thereon. To this form of slab my invention is peculiarlyadapted, as is plainly seen.

It will be noticed that the hexagon 2, cast upon the cock A and set intoslab S to secure it therein against rotation, comes down beneath slab Psome distance necessarily. Hence an ordinary tightening-nut cannot beused in this connection and some new means for securing the cock arenecessary. It will also be seen that my fastener F is peculiarly adaptedto this use, and it not only serves for both places or in connectionwith both slabs here shown, but is adapted to be used with other makesofcocks than this particular one, in which varying sizes are found and towhich this fastener is applicable, because it is made large enough atits smaller end to go with the largest sizes of threaded stems andlengths of hexagons.

What I claim is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a fastener adaptedto be used in fastening watercocks, said fastener being of conoidalshape stantially conoidal shape having its larger end bearing againstthe bottom of the slab and its 5 smaller end about said stem, and a nuton said stem engaged against said fastening device and holding it inplace, substantially as described.

Witness my hand to the foregoing specifi- 2O cation this 21st day ofApril, 1903.

JOSEPH H. GLAUBER.

W'itnesses:

R. B. MOSER, R. ZBORNIK.

